treated as singularA European plant of the parsley family with yellowish flowers, formerly eaten as a salad vegetable.
亚历山大草
Smyrnium olusatrum, family Umbelliferae
Example sentencesExamples
Evelyn commended the use of young shoots in salads or ‘in a vernal pottage’, while Caleb Threlkeld gave a recipe for an Irish ‘Lenten Potage’, a soup based on alexanders, watercress, and nettles.
But the beauty of most edible plants - nettles, dandelions, alexanders, fat hen, sorrel - is that they are so prolific they are considered a nuisance.
If Alexanders is not considered to be a rare plant in Shropshire because it is an "introduction" (Sinker, 1985) it certainly has an interesting, strange distribution here, and is one of our most striking plants.
Origin
Old Englishalexandre, from medieval Latin alexandrum.